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The Kara Goldin Show
The book explores the transformative power of setbacks in personal and professional growth. The author emphasizes how setbacks often become defining moments for successful individuals and delves into the neuroscience of learning from these experiences.
And she calls, I think it's the first line of my book, a spectacular public failure.
— Episode: 508 Amy Shoenthal: Author of The Setback...
Episode: 508 Amy Shoenthal: Author of The Setback Cycle
The book explores the transformative power of setbacks in personal and professional growth. The author emphasizes how setbacks often become defining moments for successful individuals and delves into the neuroscience of learning from these experiences.
And she calls, I think it's the first line of my book, a spectacular public failure.
I think we're definitely seeing like a shift in that trend now, but it was really, you know, it was really this moment that set us on this, hey, don't tell anyone if you're struggling. Don't tell anyone about your failure.
And what I started doing, which is what led me to really writing the book was I started really exploring the messy middle with people.
And too many people think there's just sort of like a straight path to success and not enough people realize that even the most successful people that they might admire so much and put on a pedestal what they had to endure or what obstacles they had to overcome to get to where they are.
I don't want to glorify failure. I don't want to glorify pain. But these setbacks that we experience are inevitable.